A Map of the Damage

Name: A Map of the Damage
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sophia Tobin
ISBN: 9781471194139

Author: Sophia Tobin

Narrator: Charlotte Strevens

Unabridged: 10 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Published: 04/30/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Already a Sunday Times bestselling author with her first novel, A Map of the Damage confirms Sophia Tobin as a rising star. This is stunning historical fiction for fans of Tracy Chevalier.

London, 1941. Livy makes her way through Blitz-torn London to the Mirrormakers’ Club, the only place that makes her feels safe, where she finds herself drawn into the mystery of a missing diamond, and torn between two men with competing claims on her.

London, 1841. Charlotte is helped from the scene of an accident by a man who shows her a building he is working on, and whose kindness unlocks a hope she has long kept buried. But that man is not her husband.

Two women, a century apart, united by one place: the Mirrormakers’ Club. A building which holds echoes of past loves and hates, and hides the darkest of secrets in its foundations.

About Sophia Tobin

Sophia Tobin was raised in Kent. She has studied History and History of Art, and worked for a Bond Street antique dealer for six years, specialising in silver and jewellery. She currently works in a library and archive. Inspired by her research into a real eighteenth-century silversmith, Tobin began to write The Silversmith’s Wife, which was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 2014. Her second novel, The Widow’s Confession, was published in 2015, and her third, The Vanishing, in 2017. Tobin lives in London with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Helen on September 17, 2019

Another terrific read from Ms Tobin. 1941 Livy's house is destroyed in an air raid and she loses her memory. Finding her way to the Mirrormakers club she discovers that she work there. When a descendant of the original owner of the club turns up on the trail of a missing diamond Livy offers to help......more

Goodreads review by Rachael on April 18, 2020

London, 1941. The Blitz. Livy’s home is destroyed during a bombing and her memory has failed her. She heads to The Mirrormakers’ Club and it’s familiarity where she soon discovers she had previously worked there. ⁣⁣ Mr Whitewood, a descendant of the original owner soon arrives and Livy is taken in by......more

Goodreads review by Marianne on May 20, 2021

Having recently read 'The Vanishing', the characters are rather too similar; an impressionable girl with inner strength, torn between the attentions of a ruthless 'gent' and a more lowly but sincere lover. The blitz provides an interesting context to the story. The girl is attempting to identify the......more

Goodreads review by Karen on June 11, 2020

I'm pleased to share my review for one of my all time favourite time slip historical fiction books. Thank you to Simon and Schuster UK for a paperback copy - my thoughts are my own and are not influenced by the gift. Having studied modern history at school, we always studied what happened up until A......more

Goodreads review by Denise on November 01, 2019

I got this book as it was compared to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, only darker. I couldn't find any similarity to either of them. It was an okay read though.......more

Quotes

‘A beguiling tale of love and loss’

‘Instantly gripping, this novel holds you in its spell from first to last. I was desperate to learn the fates of every one of Tobin’s vivid, intriguing characters – I simply could not stop reading. Exceptional storytelling, full of heart, wisdom and passion. Unmissable’

'A wondrous, captivating novel that seamlessly weaves 1941 Blitz ravaged London with the creation of the intriguing Mirrormaker’s Club in 1841. An historical novel with depth, beguiling characters, and an enthralling, racing story, A Map of the Damage is a triumph'

'A Map of the Damage is a gripping mystery with a passionate Victorian love story at its centre. I found myself completely drawn into a world of creative obsession, dramatic romance, and a breathless quest for the truth. Sophia Tobin’s masterful storytelling kept me hooked throughout, and her vibrant characters and beautifully rendered historical settings made this a real pleasure to read'

'Sophia Tobin uses her beguiling creation, the Mirrormakers’ Club, built in 1841 and badly damaged in the Blitz, to unite a vivid cast of characters from two eras. All are engaged in trying to solve a mystery that - with wonderful ingenuity on the part of the author - will finally be fully revealed only to the reader'

‘Undeniably page-turning’

'Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but ten times darker, and you have The Vanishing … as dark and eerie and gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on. One to curl up by the fire with on a windy night’

‘Entertaining’

‘Vivid, absorbing and wonderfully gothic, with shades of Sarah Waters and Emily and Charlotte Brontë’

‘Atmosphere aplenty and some real surprises’